I graduated from Utah in 2011, and I can say with confidence this article is an
advertising pitch and not AT ALL related to the reality of the situation. I
enrolled in 2008, and tuition was just over $12,000/year. I graduated in 2011,
and the tuition was OVER $20,000. I paid about $12,000 more than I planned. I
had the option between Utah and BYU, and chose Utah largely because the
difference in cost would have been negligible, and Utah was my #1. And with
scholarships, Utah was the economical choice, until they raised tuition 70% OVER
TWO YEARS. So much for helping students graduate with minimal debt.

And don't get me started with job placement. For 5 years, the career
services office has had 1 full-time employee, who basically organized on-campus
interviews, which benefits the top 10% of students. Everyone else is on their
own. People are finding any jobs on their own, without the help of the law
school. And with the way law schools report job statistics, any graduate who
works at Home Depot (I know 2) is counted as "employed." Goal achieved,
statistic reported, the school stops caring after that.

The U's law school is already dead. Someone just needs to remind it to lie
down.

All the author's touted "advances" merely assure a
growing, more continuous supply of tax dollars being flushed down that large
government toilet. Reducing student debt through scholarships is not the same as
reducing costs.

Real Utahns are mightily tired of funding these
academic playgrounds for rich leftist professors and rich folks' kids.
Academic elites are too out of touch to comprehend their discomfort, however.

Combine those two facts, and it makes inevitable the eventual shedding
of this unnecessary luxury that remains out of reach to nearly all those called
upon to fund it.

The article is non sequitur in addition to embarrassing. It touts and
perpetuates myths and deceptions that should have been exposed long ago. The
posts from sheriffcreg and procuradorfiscal are reality.